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qaeda or not al qaeda that that works. in yemen where people are known as more than just members of al qaeda, with the most role and at times competing identities in the hierarchy of allegiances. that does not sit well at all. one of the things the same is it's not as though al qaeda's theology, worldview, morality has suddenly become popular in yemen are palatable to a lot of people in yemen. but when people are being killed, when you visit tribesmen, a father, lucid mother or your brother or son, what happens is the senior took been in and people pushed into the arms of al qaeda because al qaeda is fighting back against the u.s. and the u.s. is the organization, the country that kills your tribesmen and family member, says the marriage of convenience for people and that's very dangerous because this could then expand al qaeda much more broadly and it doesn't matter what their motivations are. it matters the actions they carry out an attempt to attack the u.s. >> thank you. ibrahim. >> the element here -- the problem in y
qaeda or not al qaeda that that works. in yemen where people are known as more than just members of al qaeda, with the most role and at times competing identities in the hierarchy of allegiances. that does not sit well at all. one of the things the same is it's not as though al qaeda's theology, worldview, morality has suddenly become popular in yemen are palatable to a lot of people in yemen. but when people are being killed, when you visit tribesmen, a father, lucid mother or your brother or...
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specifically mentioned al-qaeda and al-qaeda was involved in the attack. when the talking points were finalized, all the references to al-qaeda were taken out. >> who changed the original talking points about the benghazi attack to take out references to al-qaeda? and why? we will investigate. >> i think we're all aware that we have some urgent business to do, but the folks are look for is action. >> plus, president obama and john boehner launch another effort to save the country from falling off the fiscal cliff. economists will be here to size up negotiations. caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> hi. i'm greg gutfeld in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight's. let's get to our top story. general david petraeus on capitol hill testifying about libya. exactly one week after resigning as the head of the c.i.a. because of an affair, petraeus testified today in closed door hearings in front of both the house and senate intelligence committees. according to those who were there, petraeus said the c.i.a
specifically mentioned al-qaeda and al-qaeda was involved in the attack. when the talking points were finalized, all the references to al-qaeda were taken out. >> who changed the original talking points about the benghazi attack to take out references to al-qaeda? and why? we will investigate. >> i think we're all aware that we have some urgent business to do, but the folks are look for is action. >> plus, president obama and john boehner launch another effort to save the...
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is al qaeda really desdecimated? with me is former reagan defense official and frank gaffney, a pleasure to have you with us this evening. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> let's talk about al qaeda, is it decimateed, on the run, on its heels? >> i believe the president is knowingly misleading the american people, putting it gently. lying to them about this -- there's every reason to believe that al qaeda is stronger today than it was when he took office. it certainly is operating with impunity in more places, and is more aggressive as a result, i believe, of his policies. so far from them being on the path to defeat or decimated, as he likes to say, apart from some people in the leadership who clearly have been taken out, the organization and particularly the franchises of the organization, the wanna-bes, those affiliated with it that are now rung, in some cases effectively, countries. for example, the size of france. >> frank, let me ask you this. where are they getting their arms from? >> it's some of it, i
is al qaeda really desdecimated? with me is former reagan defense official and frank gaffney, a pleasure to have you with us this evening. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> let's talk about al qaeda, is it decimateed, on the run, on its heels? >> i believe the president is knowingly misleading the american people, putting it gently. lying to them about this -- there's every reason to believe that al qaeda is stronger today than it was when he took office. it certainly...
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al-qaeda has been decimated. >> al-qaeda has been decimate. >> al-qaeda has been decimated. >> mike: we have been hearing that a lot. you know, the president and vice president joe biden has been telling us that okay osama bin laden is dead and gn is alive. maybe the real theme ought to be more like al-qaeda is alive and a u.s. ambassador is dead. this narrative thathas been dey a little premature for the president to announce. it is evident al-qaeda was behind the attack in benghazi, libya. it was not just one person. we are all glad and i salute the president for calling the order to get rid of osama bin laden and we give them credit for that. but the idea that somehow we no longer have an issue with islamic jihaddism is ne naive. they will be around as long as there is any one willing to carry the torch and believe you me there is something will willing to do it. >> we will not tolerate red tape. we will not tolerate bureaucracy. we go through tough times but we bounce back and the reason we bounce back is because we look out for one another and we don't believe anybody behind. >>
al-qaeda has been decimated. >> al-qaeda has been decimate. >> al-qaeda has been decimated. >> mike: we have been hearing that a lot. you know, the president and vice president joe biden has been telling us that okay osama bin laden is dead and gn is alive. maybe the real theme ought to be more like al-qaeda is alive and a u.s. ambassador is dead. this narrative thathas been dey a little premature for the president to announce. it is evident al-qaeda was behind the attack in...
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we do know now there was a lot of extremists and al qaeda connections involved. the second attack at the annex was a lot more serious. that seemed to have command and control. you had people who knew how to use weaponry. they were able to shoot mortars and have a direct hit. so we know now that that was a serious situation. >> greta: i know you are getting a lot of email coz because you say it's more serious because the ambassador died in the first one, you say more serious, you mean more organized. >> more organized. in the first attack, we could see the looting and people without weapons and people who did have weapons and they set fire to the building. but the second attack seemed to be very well organized and we know that there were al qaeda affiliates there. we are investigating and making sure that we bring these individuals to justice. we have identified a lot of these -- >> greta: except, i tell what you is troubling. >> sure, a number of things. for one thick, we know on the videotape, at some point, the cia identified a tukneesian man, tracked going on
we do know now there was a lot of extremists and al qaeda connections involved. the second attack at the annex was a lot more serious. that seemed to have command and control. you had people who knew how to use weaponry. they were able to shoot mortars and have a direct hit. so we know now that that was a serious situation. >> greta: i know you are getting a lot of email coz because you say it's more serious because the ambassador died in the first one, you say more serious, you mean more...
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of al qaeda. a few weeks later, at a suicide bomber hit one of the tribal gatherings, a funeral. it ended up killing 46 people. this has been a huge problem for the alliances to build trust with the yemeni army and forces. we're not only dealing with the issue of outsourcing security has a stake holder, but new issues are emerging with the issues of trust, to what extent the tribes can trust the new government and u.s. government. this makes it more complicated. i want to thank the lady for bringing up the second issue of reparations. i am writing a paper on the issue of reconciliation. i talk about reparations and how to reconcile. but hopefully will come out soon. linked to that is the issue of accountability. moving forward, i strongly believe in the need for the political process to succeed. there should be not only reparations in terms of money. most importantly, an apology, an acknowledgement from the state, from the yemeni state that contributed to the suffering and pain the people in yemen
of al qaeda. a few weeks later, at a suicide bomber hit one of the tribal gatherings, a funeral. it ended up killing 46 people. this has been a huge problem for the alliances to build trust with the yemeni army and forces. we're not only dealing with the issue of outsourcing security has a stake holder, but new issues are emerging with the issues of trust, to what extent the tribes can trust the new government and u.s. government. this makes it more complicated. i want to thank the lady for...
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put in the talking points and they mentioned, said it was al-qaeda. it was not al-qaeda. al-qaeda they named the adopted. leaving it aside, in the meaning of the various department of the united states government who are responsible for this, somebody took it out. when it went to the white house talking points that did not have al-qaeda in there,be or the terrorist organization. somebody was looking to defend obama before the election. i understand that. i don't know who that was. but that doesn't make susan rice any different. she was given talking points and she knew nothing different about that. >> andrea: bob, just admitted that somebody omitted the term "al-qaeda" to help barack obama before the election? >> bob: part of that is al-qaeda doesn't exist. it's a ridiculous -- >> andrea: save that clip. i think we need to use it over and over again. it was political appointees who took it out. we knew that. it wouldn't be a good storyline if somehow before an election on 9/11 country was attacked. it's not just that. it's not just what they should be finding out about, w
put in the talking points and they mentioned, said it was al-qaeda. it was not al-qaeda. al-qaeda they named the adopted. leaving it aside, in the meaning of the various department of the united states government who are responsible for this, somebody took it out. when it went to the white house talking points that did not have al-qaeda in there,be or the terrorist organization. somebody was looking to defend obama before the election. i understand that. i don't know who that was. but that...
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al qaeda until all the leadership is gone. the incident in libya was a very troubling one. we need to get to the bottom of it. to find out everything that happened and everything we can find. i have been asked about foreign debates. when something like this happens, it reminds me of how we work together in the aftermath of that horrible tragedy to get answers and make improvements. you find what happened, you find everything that has been done differently. what virginia tech has done on campus safety has not only made this campus safer, but it has served as a model for other campuses. we need to take the same model with respect to the attacks on libya. get to the bottom of it. find out what went wrong. then do what we need to do to protect our personnel across the globe. the other thing we can do is the house budget will reduce spending for security. i do not think reducing spending on security is a good idea. that is something we have to fix going forward. >> this is an example of what has happened to our consulate and our am
al qaeda until all the leadership is gone. the incident in libya was a very troubling one. we need to get to the bottom of it. to find out everything that happened and everything we can find. i have been asked about foreign debates. when something like this happens, it reminds me of how we work together in the aftermath of that horrible tragedy to get answers and make improvements. you find what happened, you find everything that has been done differently. what virginia tech has done on campus...
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we're tipping al qaeda off? i think that al qaeda knows that we certainly have pursued them around the world and so i just -- this doesn't make any sense to me. >> is it your opinion, assessment, senator, that ambassador rice deliberately on that sunday morning misled the american public? >> well, certainly she misled the american public. i think that she would say that. she would have to say that because she began our meeting today admitting that representations about the video and the protests were wrong and the impression left with the american people was misleading. i don't know that i am in a position to question her motives but it's deeply troubling to me that someone of that important position would go on every major news network knowing that she had obviously previously reviewed other classified reports that left a different impression with the omission of the important reference to al qaeda. and also saying on those shows that al qaeda had been decimated. >> bottom line, senator, if the president nomina
we're tipping al qaeda off? i think that al qaeda knows that we certainly have pursued them around the world and so i just -- this doesn't make any sense to me. >> is it your opinion, assessment, senator, that ambassador rice deliberately on that sunday morning misled the american public? >> well, certainly she misled the american public. i think that she would say that. she would have to say that because she began our meeting today admitting that representations about the video and...
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we have al qaeda on the run. we joined with the british and the french bombing libbia, got rid of qaddafi. libya is a friend. obam had to kill this. he is a hands-on commander in chief. that was his narrative in the election, benghazi blew that. that's why this evolved. whether it was a coverup or the fog of intelligence -- whether it was intentional, we will find out. >> sean: two weeks later tdoesn't seem plausible. >> it doesn't seem possible. this is exactly the obama administration, instead of taking responsibility and stepping forward, it's divert and defend. he keeps putting it back on the intelligence community. he is the president of the united states. he sent an ambassador out there, the u.n. ambassador to say it was because of a video. the job of that ambassador and the president to is to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states, including free speech. he should have never blamed it on the video. the idea they don't know who took out the talking points-- >>> they want as a distraction, t
we have al qaeda on the run. we joined with the british and the french bombing libbia, got rid of qaddafi. libya is a friend. obam had to kill this. he is a hands-on commander in chief. that was his narrative in the election, benghazi blew that. that's why this evolved. whether it was a coverup or the fog of intelligence -- whether it was intentional, we will find out. >> sean: two weeks later tdoesn't seem plausible. >> it doesn't seem possible. this is exactly the obama...
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the best intel was al qaeda. but that was removed. >> greta: eric kantor going "on the record" in the investigation. back on october 27, out of the blue, he got an alarching phone call from an fbi employee about the general's extra-marital affair. we talked about the sex scandal, the benghazi and the fiscal cliff. nice to see you. >> great to be with you. >> greta: all right. this benghazi mess, fora lack of a better word, would you be in favor of a select committee instead of having several committees trying to investigate the house and the senate, having a streamlined, one select committee, investigate and get to the bottom of this? >> i know that -- i have met with our speaker and we are talking about it. i am for what is best, in terms of making sure the american people got the bottom line on what has happened. it's so frustrating about the benghazi situation is that the administration's story has just changed almost daily. and when you think about it, take a step back, you know, our ambassador died, others d
the best intel was al qaeda. but that was removed. >> greta: eric kantor going "on the record" in the investigation. back on october 27, out of the blue, he got an alarching phone call from an fbi employee about the general's extra-marital affair. we talked about the sex scandal, the benghazi and the fiscal cliff. nice to see you. >> great to be with you. >> greta: all right. this benghazi mess, fora lack of a better word, would you be in favor of a select committee...
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qaeda. >> talking points that were prepared for her said it was al qaeda, a terrorist attack. sometime between september 14 and september 16, somebody took the al qaeda element out and put the video in. >> the question we have is who made the changes and why and we haven't been able to get that answer. >> petraeus is saying i said it was terrorism from the get go. if you did, why did susan rice go out two days later and say it was the video? this is why we need a select committee on this. >> the general had to acknowledge and none of us like to acknowledge, they got it wrong, they thought initially it was spontaneous. >> that assessment was made soon after the attack occurred. there was a deliberate posture to this attack and there were elements of preplanning involved. and so that was available within the first 24 to 48 hours after the attack took place. >> look at, this goes back do obam ahe admitted in his press conference, the white house sent her out with the best intel we had at the time. no twasn't the best intel. the best intel we had at the time was that it was al qae
qaeda. >> talking points that were prepared for her said it was al qaeda, a terrorist attack. sometime between september 14 and september 16, somebody took the al qaeda element out and put the video in. >> the question we have is who made the changes and why and we haven't been able to get that answer. >> petraeus is saying i said it was terrorism from the get go. if you did, why did susan rice go out two days later and say it was the video? this is why we need a select...
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al qaeda has been dismantled. and the truth of the matter nothing could have been further from the truth, and the story she told reinforced a political narrative helpful to the president. but disconnected from reality. >> let's be clear about what you're saying. you also heard senator feinstien say unequivocally that the notion that there was a cover-up or an attempt to mislead for political reasons is absolutely wrong. she says it's character assassination, the way you're criticizing her. you believe the president of the united states sent his ambassador to the u.n. out to mislead the american people so he could get some sort of political gain before the election? that's the cover-up you're c accusing them of? >> i'm saying that the ambassador that had nothing to do with benghazi -- why would you choose someone who had nothing to do with benghazi to tell us about benghazi? that's kind of odd. the president said, why pick on her? she didn't know anything about benghazi. she was the most politically compliant perso
al qaeda has been dismantled. and the truth of the matter nothing could have been further from the truth, and the story she told reinforced a political narrative helpful to the president. but disconnected from reality. >> let's be clear about what you're saying. you also heard senator feinstien say unequivocally that the notion that there was a cover-up or an attempt to mislead for political reasons is absolutely wrong. she says it's character assassination, the way you're criticizing...
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al-qaeda is now set up training camps in western iraq. iranian airplanes are flying iraq from syria and our failure to intervene in any way and establishing a safe zone, al-qaeda is coming in there in droves. when this thing ends and all conflicts do end, we're going to have one heck of a time with the al-qaeda elements that have moved in to syria and it it's going to be very difficult. iranians continue on path to nuclear weapons. afghanistan is also unraveling to the degree that everybody thinks that the suns leaving because that is what the president has said. they are accommodating to that eventually quality. >> north america, northern mali has been taken over by al-qaeda. weak leadership has led to enormous, i say long term challenges and chaos and frankly difficulties that we will be facing for a long time. >> which. >> which country would keep you more up at night, egypt or syria? >> probably syria. egypt is very concerning also but syria is much more near term problem in terms of the upheaval that is under way in syria in relation
al-qaeda is now set up training camps in western iraq. iranian airplanes are flying iraq from syria and our failure to intervene in any way and establishing a safe zone, al-qaeda is coming in there in droves. when this thing ends and all conflicts do end, we're going to have one heck of a time with the al-qaeda elements that have moved in to syria and it it's going to be very difficult. iranians continue on path to nuclear weapons. afghanistan is also unraveling to the degree that everybody...
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within three days he indicated in private that was al-qaeda connected. take a look. >> from what i understand, it took place behind closed door sessions, he did provide the reality was al-qaeda participated groups in attack. >> judge jeanine: then who told them no stand down and who made the decision not to send 74 c.i.a. issued this statement. no one at any level at c.i.a. told anybody not to help those in need. claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. now, the c.i.a. director with key information resigns. so when did the president know his c.i.a. head was having an affair? when did the f.b.i. tell the president of its investigation? would the f.b.i. not known for its warm and cuddly relationship with the c.i.a. dare investigate the head of the c.i.a. without telling the president of the united states? all of a sudden we hear about it the investigation two days after the election. now, we know he met the general in 2006. by 2006 pursued a m.d. dissertation and was in 2010 was embedded with the military. within a year he goes to an f.b.i. investigat
within three days he indicated in private that was al-qaeda connected. take a look. >> from what i understand, it took place behind closed door sessions, he did provide the reality was al-qaeda participated groups in attack. >> judge jeanine: then who told them no stand down and who made the decision not to send 74 c.i.a. issued this statement. no one at any level at c.i.a. told anybody not to help those in need. claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. now, the c.i.a. director...
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deliberately mislead on this case for political reasons because they were driving the narrative that al-qaeda had been decimated and the war, war was receding or a question of incompetence. neither of those two things is good for the administration although it's after the election, so, they can get the consequences. >> let's take a look at the president talking about susan rice, the u.n. ambassador who many think he will nominate to succeed hillary clinton as secretary of state. >> for them to go after the u.n. ambassador, who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous. >> paul: kim, that sure sounds like a president who is ready to nominate susan rice for the state department and my sources suggest that that's exactly what he's going to do. of course, my source haves been wrong before, but if-- and i've been wrong before. but if he does that, is this going to be a really big fight? >> oh, it's going be to be a huge fight because you have had republicans come out already and say
deliberately mislead on this case for political reasons because they were driving the narrative that al-qaeda had been decimated and the war, war was receding or a question of incompetence. neither of those two things is good for the administration although it's after the election, so, they can get the consequences. >> let's take a look at the president talking about susan rice, the u.n. ambassador who many think he will nominate to succeed hillary clinton as secretary of state. >>...
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on al-qaeda. dennis taw of touched on that with syria, but this remains a very, very dangerous threat. not just to us, but stability in the region. there's a new factor seen in iraq and didn't think we would see elsewhere. that is al-qaeda portraying itself as the champion of the sunni muslims against the shia muslims, again, back in 2005-2006 when they pushed this, he was under criticism from the head quarters, if you will, about doing that, that the target should be the americans rather than shia muslim, and, in fact, by the time i was in iraq, al-qaeda was leaving us alone, and that was because we were heavily armored, but the other reason they were target of a prefacefuls the shia. we see this in syria. it's a very, very bad development, could tear the region apart. we went there twice in the balcans in boas knee -- bosnia and kosovo to resist such a split. the middle east is far more important and far more dangerous than the balkans. we have to watch this. on al-qaeda, for various legal reaso
on al-qaeda. dennis taw of touched on that with syria, but this remains a very, very dangerous threat. not just to us, but stability in the region. there's a new factor seen in iraq and didn't think we would see elsewhere. that is al-qaeda portraying itself as the champion of the sunni muslims against the shia muslims, again, back in 2005-2006 when they pushed this, he was under criticism from the head quarters, if you will, about doing that, that the target should be the americans rather than...
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they say, evidence that it was al qaeda or al qaeda-affiliated, that they intercepts claiming responsibility by a particular group. the next day, september 14, cia director petraeus goes to capitol hill. he makes the report and raises the video and the protest in direct conflict to what the day before, the fbi and ctc said and what the cia station chief said, who was in libya on the day of the attack. >> these are critical evens in the first week of september. this sets out the conflict that the lawmakers saw between what director petraeus was saying as the cause, what fox news was told by lawmakers, that he was very much wedded to the narrative of the administration, that it was a flash mob or connected to the video. and this was in direct conflict with what the fbi was stating to lawmakers. this is the first time in our reporting of fox news that we have heard lawmakers express anger and frustration with director petraeus because this is someone who in many respect, until this point, had been untouchable. >> greta: supposed to testify next week. he is no longer the director of the cia. but
they say, evidence that it was al qaeda or al qaeda-affiliated, that they intercepts claiming responsibility by a particular group. the next day, september 14, cia director petraeus goes to capitol hill. he makes the report and raises the video and the protest in direct conflict to what the day before, the fbi and ctc said and what the cia station chief said, who was in libya on the day of the attack. >> these are critical evens in the first week of september. this sets out the conflict...
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al qaeda is way back in iraq. al qaeda training camps now in western iraq. they're over all over. they are pouring into syrias because we have failed to act in any way helpful and 32,000 syrians have been massacred in afghanistan, as we upon, the attacks continue and places in afghanistan that have been peaceful for years are now falling under the control of the taliban. this is a president with a failed foreign policy. and that is because he doesn't know what leadership is about. >> greta: you mentioned that others in the media have been following it. my colleagues have been doing the heavy lifting, even for us here at fox newschannel. but today, jay tapper, abc had a story and cbs news, also. so other news networks and organizations are starting to dig in. so we might see a change on this, senator. >> i hope so. i menged, how can they explain that a counter-terrorism security group, especially designed to convene and coordinate actions of government, in cases of terrorist attack, they toll them to stand down. how do we know that? people who are part of that organization are mad
al qaeda is way back in iraq. al qaeda training camps now in western iraq. they're over all over. they are pouring into syrias because we have failed to act in any way helpful and 32,000 syrians have been massacred in afghanistan, as we upon, the attacks continue and places in afghanistan that have been peaceful for years are now falling under the control of the taliban. this is a president with a failed foreign policy. and that is because he doesn't know what leadership is about. >>...
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is al qaeda really desdecimated? with me is former reagan defense official and frank gaffney, a pleasure to have you with us this evening. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> let's talk about al qaeda, is it decimateed, on the run, on its heels? >> i believe the president is knowingly misleading the american people, putting it gently. lying to them about this -- there's every reason to believe that al qaeda is stronger today than it was when he took office. it certainly is operating with impunity in more places, and is more aggressive as a result, i believe, of his policies. so far from them being on the path to defeat or decimated, as he likes to say, apart from some people in the leadership who clearly have been taken out, the organization and particularly the franchises of the organization, the wanna-bes, those affiliated with it that are now rung, in some cases effectively, countries. for example, the size of france. >> frank, let me ask you this. where are they getting their arms from? >> it's some of it, i
is al qaeda really desdecimated? with me is former reagan defense official and frank gaffney, a pleasure to have you with us this evening. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> let's talk about al qaeda, is it decimateed, on the run, on its heels? >> i believe the president is knowingly misleading the american people, putting it gently. lying to them about this -- there's every reason to believe that al qaeda is stronger today than it was when he took office. it certainly...